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those who at Thermopylae were slain,

Glorious the doom, and beautiful the lot;

Their tomb an altar: men from tears refrain

To honor them, and praise, but mourn them not.

Such sepulchre, nor drear decay

Nor all-destroying time shall waste; this right have they.

Within their grave the home-bred glory

Of Greece was laid: this witness gives

Leonidas the Spartan, in whose story

A wreath of famous virtue ever lives.